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Originally Posted by drussell
Can't you just lightly warm it up with a hair drier or heat gun wafted around the area or something so it's less likely to harm a winding trying to use it as a heating element?
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That is exactly what I was thinking. If a hair dryer will do it, that would be the thing to use. A heat gun puts out an incredible amount of heat and I fear that it would melt the spool which takes me all the way back to my original hunt for one of these. My spool had deteriorated to dust and the winding was just dangling. That may have been OK really as the slug was in there and the bulk of the winding was just as it would be with the spool, but the dangling winding's weight caused some separation of the winding and I was advised that just that would be enough to render the part bad.
I should have (back then) checked the H.O. cathode current while moving the winding around a bit to see what it would do.